Is Action class is Servlet or Not ? if yes why ?

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KidJava

  • Apr 13th, 2007
 

Nope !!

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Charles

  • Nov 27th, 2007
 

Judging by the rules of inheritence, i would say that Action class is a Servlet.

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ashok99

  • Jan 2nd, 2008
 

No!!! Action class is not a servlet. it may resemble like Servlet since it is using HttpServletRequest and HttpServletResponse but actually its a plain java class which is been called/Managed by a well defined framework called Struts.

_Neo_

  • Jan 9th, 2008
 

In Struts1, Action Servlet is a servelet (since it extends HTTPServle) but Action class extents org.apache.struts.action.Action which has nothing to do with Servlet.

In Struts2, Action class extends com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionSupport which has nothing to do with Servlet.

So, to answer the question, Action class is not a Servlet by any logic.

meshram.anurag

  • Apr 2nd, 2008
 

No,Action class is not a Servlet. Servlet is a helper application of the web server to produce dynamic content to the client. And Action class is also made for the same.

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pradeepkmr18

  • Jun 9th, 2008
 

Action class is not a Servlet .
Any Java object which extends the functionality of servlet interface or HttpServlet or GenericServlet or it is subclass can be called as a servlet but our action class does not extend any of these.
For clarification go to web.xml, there we have to define all the servlets. You will not find Action class bec it is not a servlet.

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atulgzb

  • Jul 6th, 2010
 

Actually the confusion is between two classes Action and ActionServlet. Be clear that these two are different classes. ActionServlet is a servlet but Action is a normal java class.

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mani.sivapuram

  • Feb 15th, 2011
 

No Action class is not a  servlet since it is not overriding init(),service,destory methods at the same time its super classes are also not implemented these three methods.One thing i want to say is any servlet in the world should implement Servlet interface either directly or indirectly .But action class is not implementing like that so it is not a servlet

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GK

  • Oct 7th, 2012
 

No. the Struts action class neither extend any class nor implement any interface.

More over it has defined one method getServlet() .. discribes which servlet it associated with it. This will be Action Servlet, unless your write ur own Action Servlet.

public class Action {
/**
*

An instance of TokenProcessor to use for token
* functionality.


*/
private static TokenProcessor token = TokenProcessor.getInstance();

// NOTE: We can make the tken variable protected and remove Actions
// token methods or leave it private and allow the token methods to
// delegate their calls.
// ----------------------------------------------------- Instance Variables

/**
*

The servlet to which we are attached.


*/
protected transient ActionServlet servlet = null;

// ------------------------------------------------------------- Properties

/**
*

Return the servlet instance to which we are attached.


*
* @return The servlet instance to which we are attached.
*/
public ActionServlet getServlet() {
return (this.servlet);
}

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PS

  • May 17th, 2013
 

No.. Action class is not a servlet. The only servlet class in plain struts framework (without spring etc.) is ActionServlet.

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mani.sivapuram

  • May 5th, 2014
 

Action class is not a servlet but it is having the properties like a servlet. For example servlets have request and response objects similarly action classes is also having request and response objects. So we can say action classes are having the servlet behaviour but they are not servlets. Since servlets are having init, service and destroy methods are there but action classes are not having these ..

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